Philippine Films at the - The Philippine Embassy in Berlin

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At the 62 Berlin International Film Festival
(Berlinale), Philippine cinema will once again
share the spotlight alongside film entries
from all over the world. This year, four (4)
Filipino films will be fielded in four
competitions:
Main Competition Programme:
“Captive”
This fiction film retraces real life events about a
hostage drama in southern Philippines.
Mr.
Brillante Mendoza directed this film which is among
the first five films selected as official entries in the
Main Competition this year.
For almost the past three decades, the Philippines
has not had a film entry in the Main Competition
section. The first and only time it did was in 1983
with the film ‘Himala’ by award-winning director
Ishmael Bernal. Director Mendoza’s Captive hopes
to once more gain Berlinale audiences’ attention to
the excellence of filmmaking in the Philippines. Mr.
Mendoza is the first and only Filipino so far to have
won the Best Director award at the Cannes Film
Festival for his film ‘Kinatay’ (2009). Captive is
among the first five entries publicly announced for
the Competition last January. Around 22 films so far
from all over the world are competing this year.
Festival in Manila in 2011. It is Marlon Rivera’s
directorial debut, and it is competing in this year’s
Berlinale Forum section.
Captive will have its world premiere showing at the
Berlinale on 12 February 2012, 19:30hr at the
Berlinale Palast.
Generation Kplus Section:
Ang Babae sa Septic Tank will have its European
premiere showing at the Berlinale on 11 February
2012, 22:00hr at the Cinestar 8 theatre.
“Nono”
Forum Section:
“Ang Babae Sa Septic Tank”
An independent film about how to make (or not to
make?) independent films. Indie films, as they are
more popularly known, are making it big in the
Philippines. This film, Ang Babae sa Septic Tank,
directed by Marlon N. Rivera, is a hilarious take on
the Filipino indie film industry, its ups and downs,
and the seemingly endless challenges that indie
filmmakers face.
This film garnered the Best Director, Best Actress
(Ms. Eugene Domingo) and Best Film awards at the
7th Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film
For the young generation section, the film “Nono,”
is the Philippines’ entry this year. Directed by
Rommel Tolentino, the film is about a young child
with a speech disability due to facial deformity, and
his desire to join the oratorical contest during his
school’s National Language Week celebration.
Nono has already won the Special Jury Prize in the
2009 Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film
Festival in Manila, while Director Tolentino is the
first Filipino filmmaker who has won the very
prestigious Clermont Ferrand International Short
Film Festival in France in 2009.
According to the Berlinale’s website, the
Generation section is “home to works that are
thematically and aesthetically linked to the
experiences of children and young people, despite
being originally intended for another target audience.
Such films are often suitable for young people and
can therefore be also marketed towards them.”
Nono will have its European premiere showing at
the Berlinale on 14 February 2012, 12:30hr at the
Haus der Kulturen der Welt Kino 1.
director of .MOV, the first digital film festival in the
Philippines.
Pusong Wazak! will have its world premiere
showing at the Berlinale on 14 February 2012,
16:00hr at the CinemaxX 5 theatre.
SCHEDULE OF SCREENINGS
Short Film Section:
DATE
“Pusong Wazak!”
“CAPTIVE”
12.02.2012
13.02.2012
13.02.2012
15.02.2012
19.02.2012
TIME THEATRE
19:30
12:00
20:30
15:00
21:45
Berlinale Palast
Friedrichstadt Palast
Friedrichstadt Palast
Friedrichstadt Palast
Friedrichstadt Palast
“ANG BABAE SA SEPTIC TANK”
This year, 27 films from 22 countries will be
competing for the Golden Bear and Silver Bear Jury
Prize, the DAAD Short Film Award and a short film
nomination for the European Film Prize.
11.02.2012
12.02.2012
14.02.2012
17.02.2012
Cinestar 8
Colosseum 1
Kino Arsenal 1
Cubix 9
Berlinale Palast
Marlene Dietrich Platz 1, Tiergarten district
Friedrich Palast
Friedrichstr. 107, 10117 Berlin-Mitte
CinemaxX
Potsdamer Platz, Potsdamer Straße 5
(Kinoeingang in der Voxstraße 2)
10785 Berlin
Cinestar
Potsdamer Strasse 4, 10785 Berlin
Colosseum
Schönhauser Allee 123, 10437 Berlin
Prenzlauer Berg district
Cubix
Rathausstr. 1, Alexanderplatz
10178 Berlin
Kino Arsenal
“NONO”
14.02.2012
Pusong Wazak! is the classic love story between a
gangster and a prostitute. “Khavn de la Cruz
deconstructs this often recounted tale of love …. and
explores in fleeting images the likelihood of dying
too early from the violence so omnipresent in the
Philippines today,” says the Berlinale Short Film
press release. Khavn de la Cruz sat as a member of
the International Short Film Jury of the Berlinale in
2008. He is not only a filmmaker, but also a multiawarded writer and composer, and is the festival
22:00
20:00
15:00
22:30
Theatre addresses
15.02.2012
17.02.2012
Potsdamer Strasse 2, 10785 Berlin
12:30 Haus der Kulturen der Welt
Kino 1
14:00 CinemaxX 3
10:00 FIlmtheater am
Friedrichshain
“PUSONG WAZAK”
14.02.2012
16.02.2012
18.02.2012
16:00 CinemaxX 5
22:00 CinemaxX 3
17:45 Colosseum 1
Filmtheater am Friedrichshain
Bötzowstrasse. 1-5 in 10407 Berlin
Prenzlauer Berg district
Haus der Kulturen der Welt
John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10 10557 Berlin
Tiergarten district
More information on the Berlinale:
www.berlinale.de